MSNBC News reports the judge presiding over Trump’s arraignment has issued an order stating no television cameras will be allowed in the courtroom, while only five pool photographers will be allowed prior to proceedings with the defendant, Donald J. Trump.  Reporters will be allowed in the courtroom, but they will not be allowed to use electronic devices.

This rule is only for the arraignment of Donald J. Trump.  The judge notes that cameras and reporters will be allowed in the halls of the courthouse, as they always are.

Yeah this will work. Bragg will totally indict himself now that the libs know Trump is facing 34 felonies for crimes that might go well beyond paying off just Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal.

A source tells Yahoo News disgraced former President Trump is facing 34 Class E felony counts of falsification of a business record on Tuesday. The source also says Donald will be spared handcuffs and a mugshot – though another report from Rolling Stone says his campaign wants it for merch.

(Update 11:50 p.m.:  He’s dead of a reported self-inflicted gunshot wound.)  Roy McGrath, the fugitive former chief-of-staff for former Republican Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, has been apprehended in Tennessee, the Baltimore Banner reports.  Police had initially believed he had fled to his retirement home in Florida, but after offering a $20,000 reward, they suspected that he had fled overseas.

Officials say McGrath was wounded during the apprehension, but specific details of the operation were not known.  (Updated 9:14 p.m. ET:  The Baltimore Sun reports McGrath suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound.  His condition is unknown.)  The former head of Maryland’s Environmental Commission before joining Hogan’s executive office, McGrath skipped town just prior to his trial date after officials claimed he forged documents to obtain a near quarter million dollar payout and an increased pension upon his retirement.

In a stunning victory for the woke mob, North Dakota state Senate Republicans on Monday failed to override “RINO” Governor Doug Burgum’s veto of their anti-pronoun bill, the AP reports. The bill would have prohibited public school teachers from referring to students by their personal pronouns and state agencies from requiring employees to acknowledge trans colleagues’ pronouns.

“The teaching profession is challenging enough without the heavy hand of state government forcing teachers to take on the role of pronoun police,” said Burgum in announcing the veto.

“We can’t get a list on Epstein’s island with who went and how many times, but if you’re Donald Trump and, and you’re takin’ care of your family and you have lawyers handling your business, it go-…. y’know… it’s un-, it’s unbelievable, Jesse,” Trump spokeslawyer Alina Habba distracts, arguing that prosecutors in Manhattan have international flight records.

“Yeah, that flight list and ah…. Hunter’s bookkeeping, those are things you might want to look into,” helpful Fox bro Jesse Watters replies, trying to distract from the obvious anti-Trump issue in Habba’s argument.

It’s so cute that the Trump cabal’s deflection has progressed from, “Solve every other crime in New York City before you go after Trump” to “Why can’t we find out all the people who hung out with Donald’s good friend, Jeffrey Epstein.” Although for a moment, Watters seemed to realize the implication of reminding people of this:

In their continuing quest to legislate their morality on their subjects, the Florida Taliban GOP has passed legislation that would ban abortions after six weeks, a time when many pregnant people do not know they’re pregnant, Politico reports.

Two members of the ruling Christian Fascist party in Florida defected from the regime and voted with Democrats, making up the 13-16 final tally.  The legislation gracious grants an exception for victims of rape, incest and/or human trafficking who must get an abortion before the 16th week of pregnancy.

Apparently furious on Monday that the libs have a rough idea of how many counts fat former President Trump is facing in his indictment ahead of the big arraignment on Tuesday, demented Fox News host Jesse Watters – who doesn’t have a juris doctor – proclaimed that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg committed a felony. “How does CNN know this?!?!? Because someone in the Manhattan DA’s office leaked this! That’s a felony! Bragg’s a felon!” Watters squealed.

A Republican Ascension Parish, Louisiana municipal worker was fired and arrested last month after he was caught on video not once but twice peeing in the parish’s water supply, KDFW reports.

Michael Mastin, a registered Law and Order party voter was charged with two counts each of criminal damage to a critical infrastructure and contaminating water supplies after spiking a water tank at the treatment plant he worked at in Donaldsonville with his piss. Cops say Mastin didn’t give a reason for his actions, which is weird because you’d think a right wing water utility worker would be happy to explain how his urine could cure COVID or dilute the fluoride in the supply or something.

In a state where Republicans want to bar discussions of any sexual issues or enslavement in a classroom, those same Republicans are considering a bill that would require teachers in all public school classrooms have to explain the concept of adultery and manservants to students from kindergarten on.

NBC’s Mike Hixenbaugh tweeted the apparent contradiction in the goals of Republicans to shield children from all things sexual by pointing out SB 1515 requires every public school classroom to display the Ten Commandments as listed in the King James version of the Bible, which includes language describing embarrassing sexual act, descriptions of which potentially violate other Texas laws.

For you godless libs, the Seventh Commandment reads, “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” an act that will have to be explained to most six-year-olds in violation of Republicans’ policy of banning sex talk from elementary schools.  And the Tenth Commandment–“Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor’s.”–will likely prompt discussion on more things than the definition of “covet.”

Like we haven’t had enough live aerial news coverage of a deranged criminal scumbag enjoying some fleeting moments of freedom, cruising down the streets of a major metropolitan area before having to face the justice system here’s a completely different one on the other side of the country.

NASA Press Release: “NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) announced the four astronauts who will venture around the Moon on Artemis II, the first crewed mission on NASA’s path to establishing a long-term presence at the Moon for science and exploration through Artemis. The agencies revealed the crew members Monday during an event at Ellington Field near NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. ‘The Artemis II crew represents thousands of people working tirelessly to bring us to the stars. This is their crew, this is our crew, this is humanity’s crew,’ said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. ‘NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Hammock Koch, and CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen, each has their own story, but, together, they represent our creed: E pluribus unum – out of many, one. Together, we are ushering in a new era of exploration for a new generation of star sailors and dreamers – the Artemis Generation.'”

“The crew assignments are as follows: Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, Mission Specialist 1 Christina Hammock Koch, and Mission Specialist 2 Jeremy Hansen. They will work as a team to execute an ambitious set of demonstrations during the flight test. The approximately 10-day Artemis II flight test will launch on the agency’s powerful Space Launch System rocket, prove the Orion spacecraft’s life-support systems, and validate the capabilities and techniques needed for humans to live and work in deep space. The flight, set to build upon the successful uncrewed Artemis I mission completed in December, will set the stage for the first woman and first person of color on the Moon through the Artemis program, paving the way for future for long-term human exploration missions to the Moon, and eventually Mars.”

Donald Trump has retained former federal prosecutor Todd Blanche to represent him in the Manhattan criminal prosecution stemming from his illegal machinations to conceal a hush money payment to a porn actress with whom he had a momentary sexual encounter.

According to Politico, Blanche had to resign from the prestigious DC-based firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft to take Trump as a client, perhaps because of Trump’s well-known habit of not paying contractors.  That did not deter Blanche, however, who commented, “I have been asked to represent Trump in the recently charged DA case, and after much thought/consideration, I have decided it is the best thing for me to do and an opportunity I should not pass up.”

Blanche joins the team led by Susan Necheles and Joe Tacopina in the case, while a melange of other attorneys are handling Trump’s various other legal engagements, from the Fulton County election rigging investigation to the federal special counsel investigation into Trump’s alleged direction of a failed insurrection.

Hah! Take that libs! The true President of the United States’s plane was fueled, maintained, and piloted sufficiently to take him from Florida to New York City so he can face indictment for having sex with a pornstar and paying her to keep quiet! He and his sycophants didn’t plunge into the icy waters of the Atlantic or over farmland in North Carolina or somewhere else in between after a sudden and catastrophic in-flight cabin depressurization causing the aircraft to break up! Score one for America and the rule of law that Trump didn’t plunge 35,000 feet from the sky, spending his last moments screaming in absolute terror! Go hide in your cry closets losers! LMAO!

National Zero will resume our regular coverage now that we’ve updated our MAGA readers on just how badly the libs got owned. We hope they enjoyed this total capitulation to America First.

The slush fund operating under a front as disgraced former President Trump’s 2024 campaign has raised more than $7 million in the 93 hours since his indictment in New York, CNBC reports.

Lawyers for disgraced former President Trump on Monday wrote a letter to Judge Juan Merchan opposing the New York Times, the Associated Press, and CNN’s joint request to allow cameras in the courtroom during their fat client’s arraignment on Tuesday “because it will create a circus-like atmosphere at the arraignment, raise unique security concerns, and is inconsistent with President Trump’s presumption of innocence,” CNN’s Kaitlan Collins reports. Merchan had set a 1 PM deadline for Donald’s lawyers to respond, possibly indicating that he’s leaning to the media’s side.

New York is unfortunately one of the only jurisdictions in the United States which does not automatically allow cameras in a courtroom, but judges do have discretion to waive it during proceedings outside of witness testimony, hence the request to Merchan. There is movement legislatively to address this and probably plenty of time to do so before Donald’s trial.

Anyway, the opposition is risible. Of course it’s going to be “a circus-like atmosphere at the arraignment” as if that’s suddenly a problem for the fat orange clown. Everything’s a fucking circus with him. The only time Trump doesn’t crave attention like this is when having cameras in the room would deprive him of the chance to spin it for his fanboys. It will be a lot harder to claim that the prosecutors and judge were “extra biased” or whatever afterward if a mostly dull and otherwise uneventful arraignment is aired live on television with the whole world watching.

Hells-wearing Florida Gov Ron DeSantis on Monday ordered his minions to explain how the fuck they let Disney outsmart him by doing a runaround of his takeover of the Magic Kingdom’s special municipal district, demanding “a thorough review and investigation” of maneuvers that escaped their noticed despite having been executed legally and publicly, the New York Times reports.

“These collusive and self-dealing arrangements aim to nullify the recently passed legislation, undercut Florida’s legislative process and defy the will of Floridians,” DeSantis wrote in the letter dated Monday to Florida Chief Inspector General Melinda Miguel. “Any legal or ethical violations should be referred to the proper authorities.” It’s not clear why the “Top Gov” doesn’t just drop it and go back to the drawing board legislatively to find some new way of inflicting punishment on Disney for daring to oppose his regime rather than risking further humiliation when in a few months the IG reports she hasn’t found shit and there’s no way for him to win here.

Where to start with Fox News’s breathless coverage of disgraced former President Trump’s motorcade ride from Mar-a-Lago to the airport West Palm Beach, Florida. Holy shit, it was hard picking a clip to lead with but we think Harris Faulkner trying to sound deep and philosophical as “Trump Force One” taxied on the tarmac wins very narrowly. Just before that was Kayleigh McEnany asking if NYC Mayor Eric Adams was threatening Marjorie Taylor Greene with his warning.

Before that it was the motorcade’s trip, with seemingly half of Twitter invoking the OJ Simpson white Bronco chase and the other half with a (seasonally appropriate) joking comparison to Jesus’s Stations of the Cross. Lowlights of the coverage include the motorcade having to stop at a red light while one of the Fox bimbos was complaining about the expected gag order in the case and Faulker just gushing over how many fanboys showed up along the route. Simply spectacular.

Disgraced former President Trump has retained “experienced white-collar defense attorney” Todd Blanche to defend him in his indictment in New York City, the Wall Street Journal reports. Blanche previously repped scumbag 2016 Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and Rudy Giuliani’s crony Igor Fruman on charges related to the Ukraine scandal, so he’s got MAGA experience.